What Adrienne Thinks About That

I say close your eyes and go for it...chances are if you don't you will miss out on some good reading.(hopefully you will remember to open your eyes...lol...) My cat has a "poop" mark on her face that looks terrible, but I still love her!!! lol...

It does look bad though...

Ah, but how many pages does it have? Sadly, some kids never get past a certain point there, either. Hey, if you really don't like the cover...you can just design your own and cover the bad cover. We used to do that in our school library...

This is why I think you should become a librarian, Elizabeth. :) That's a great thought! When I come across good books that aren't getting the attention they deserve, I always think it's part of my job to try to bring attention to them -- because who else will? This would be an interesting thing to try, although I could imagine some of my fellow librarians having heart attacks....

Ah, but I LIKE it. It's moody and strange. Great for a grown-up book, but not for a kid book, you are right...

It really is about the cover, no matter what age group a book is for. If an adult book doesn't even have a mildly interesting cover or title, it won't get picked up. For teens/children, all I can think of is "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy", which has an awful cover, but is an award winner. As soon as I saw it, I knew it was doomed to shelf sit. I have reviewed a few books with covers that made a book look like it was already 20 years old, and have mentioned that in my review so that the librarians will know it probably won't circulate. A, maybe you should write an open letter to the publishers about cover art, too. This particular cover doesn't seem *so* bad, though - it might circulate if you can get one kid to read it and tell all of his or her friends how great it is. Word of mouth can do wonders.

Go with the content.It isn't fair to the author to do otherwise.Really.And if it sits because of its cover,set it up in a cool little book of the week thing or something to draw attention to it&get word of mouth going:-)Sorry this may sound harsh--I'm just in a hurry!Love to all:-)

What scares me off more than the cover is the apparent tired old children's book and movie theme of trading places, bodies, lifestyles, etc. I noticed at about age 10 that there was a pattern that a "Freaky Friday" -type movie or after school special came out about every two years, and that pattern has kept up steadily ever since. If this book is somehow different than the hundreds of books/movies/TV on the topic of people becoming someone else for a while and experiencing their life and both of them growing and becoming more tolerant of each other in the process, then that is not conveyed by the cover. But the cover still is ugly, busy, and would make me want to shove it back into the shelf.

This is a total sidetrack, but have I mentioned lately how much work it is to write a book? Particularly when your cat keeps thinking it's a good idea to lay down on your notes and/or keyboard? And you have to move her? Repeatedly? And the articles you're reading are riddled with factual errors?

Yeah.

Not to mention the fact I'm getting hungry. I drank a latte AND ate some grapes for breakfast. Shouldn't that keep me going longer than this?

Please keep commenting. It's a very welcome diversion.

Oh, yeah, and now freaking InfoTrac decided to have "technical difficulties."

Whatever.

The book cover is awful. I usually judge books by their covers and actually I love the SmartBitches blog because they make fun of book covers.

Writing is a a lot of work, especially when you're working.

Of course, writing mostly just looks like a lot of sitting at the computer, periodically trying to convince your cat that it would be a good idea to stop lying on the keyboard and your notes.